Teaching

I have realized that one learns the most about the subject when one teaches it. Explaining a concept to others is the best way to clarify it in one's mind. If I am a good teacher, it is because I had students who willingly heard me while I was learning. 

I am like a person who sells the river water - people who can't access the river or do not have clean bottles buy the river water from such a person.  I give out my bit from the river of knowledge to the ones who can digest it better if someone explains it. But it is the existing knowledge! For the people who have other ways gain knowledge, I am not needed! A teacher always delves into the pool of existing knowledge, but with her own style, interpretations and biases. I am aware that I am like the person who sells river water. She adds bottle, I add understandable explanations! 

Each person who comes to learn has his or her strengths. I have no illusions that I measure their potential. I play the limited role of testing whether the person has understood the concepts that I have taught. Not doing well in my subject means nothing as far as the overall personality of any student is concerned. As is said, education tries to teach the same thing, like climbing a tree, to a fish, a bird, an elephant and a monkey. It is very important to understand the shortcomings of the educational system that we have created.  

Thanks to my students, I have always been rated among the best teachers in student evaluations at all institutes I have taught at. I want to thank each one of them for their love and affection. It is not I who made them what they are; it is they who made me what I am. 

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